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Frank Gehry Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Home Page:
Gehry Partners, LLP, Los Angeles, California
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Cross Check Armchair
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Frank Gehry, Architect: Designs for Museums
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Furniture of Frank Gehry
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
"Bubbles" chaise longue
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City
The Winton Residence Guest House, 1986
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Works from the Gemini G.E.L. prints online catalogue raisonné
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Side Chair, 1972
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
9 works documented
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Spain Ministry of Education Imagebank (in Spanish) 
Type "Gehry" into the search box & click "Buscar"; the "Descargar" link downloads a high-res image
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
arcspace
Photographs from a variety of projects
ArtsNet Minnesota
Standing Glass Fish, 1986
ArtsNet Minnesota
The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
ArtsNet Minnesota
Frederick O. Weisman Art Museum, 1993
Great Buildings Online
PBS
Biography, from the American Masters TV series
The Pritzker Architecture Prize
Profile of the architect, winner of the 1989 Pritzker Prize
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Frank Gehry 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
PBS
Discussion with Gehry about his Guggenheim Bilbao Museum
Salon Magazine
Profile of the architect's career
The Canadian Encyclopedia
Biographical entry
The New York Observer
"Gehry's New Guggenheim Is Kitschy Theme Park", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer
"Frank Gehry's Syndrome Makes Museums Show Biz", article by Hilton Kramer
Multimedia:
The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS)
About a half-dozen interviews with Frank Gehry
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Conversations with Frank Gehry
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Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works: 1969 to Today
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Digital Gehry
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Gehry Talks: Architecture and Process
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Frank Gehry
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